The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-03-05
Maryland Affairs.

Mrs. Nancy Miller, of Cumberland, is near
ly 107 years of age.
Basil Sweadner died in Libertytown, Fred
erick county, on Thursday of last week, aged
81 years.
The Baltimore County Agricultural Fair
will begin at Timonium, Sept. 6, and con-
tinue four days.
Towson is to have National Bank. The
next thing we suppose, her editors will be
opening bank accounts.
Reisterstown has recently been blessed
with another newspaper, and is soon to have
town hall and town clock.
Joseph W. Hesse, in jail at Baltimore for
disorderly. conduct, las: Sunday twisted his
shirt into rope and hanged himself
Gov Lloyd has refused to pardon William
w. Massey, n former clerk in the Bank of
Commerce, Baltimore. now serving a sentence
for forgery.
The granite quarries of Messrs. McClena-
han & Bro, of Port Deposit, will be put in
active operation in few weeks. They employ
ordinarily about 300 men.
The fine residence of DIR. Augustus Riggs
at Cooksville, Howard county, with all its
contents, was consumed by fire about one
o'clock Sunday morning.
Col. Stewart Brown, of the Fifth Regiment,
was on Thursday night elected Brigadier.
General of the Maryland militia, in the place
of Gen. James R. Herbert.
The old board of directors of the Frederick;
and Pennsylvania Line Railroad were re-
elected on last Friday and Col. Charles Z.
Trail was reelected president
Mrs. Jane T. E. Poultney, widow of Thos.
Poultney, jr., died last week, at the residence
of her son-in-law, Henry D. Farnandis, near
Belair, Hartford county, aged 7Syears.
John Hassett and John Hill, two young
men from Washington, were killed at Hyatts-
vile, Prince Georges county, on Sunday
night, by train on the B. & o. Railroad.
The wife and son of VIM. H. Richardson
are asking the Governor to pardon him from
confinement in the Towson jail where he is
serving term for libelling Judge Fowler.
The county commissioners of Anne Arundel
county have been shelling some of the roads
in that county, the oyster shells costing one
cent bushel and the farmers in the neigh
horhood doing the hauling free.
Mrs Anna McElfsh, widow of the late
John McElfsh, died at her residence in Flint
stone, Allegany county, at midnight Satur-
day. She was ninety one years old, and was
one of the Oldest residents of Allegany county.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stull died in Frederick on
Tuesday, in her Goth year. She had AZ grand
and 81 great grandchildren and great-great-
grandchildren. She had never ridden in a
railroad car or been outside of Frederick
county.
D. f. Brown, who killed James NJ. Pickett
at Hagerstown last summer, was tried this
week and on Thursday was acquitted Pick
EFT was bad character and kept rum hole.
He had himself frequently shot and beat peo-
Pile, and the jury evidently thought his death
was just retribution,
Joseph Davis, of Lynn, Massachusetts, had
a contract to utilize the convicts in the Mary
land Penitentiary, and worked 160 of them
on makink shoes. He has given up his con-
tract, and now the directors are puzzled to
know what to put the prisoners at. Exercise
is necessary to health.
Daniel Cronin, who shot and painfully
wounded his wife in Frederick last October,
and afterwards fled to the attic of his house
and for several hours de6ed the officers who
were authorized to arrest him, causing great
excitement, was tried and convicted ON Tues
day of assault with intent to kill. He will go
to the penitentiary for six years.
The first through train on the Columbia and
Port Deposit Railroad since January 81,
passed over the road on February 20. For
month the road had been covered with ice
from FIVE to twenty-five feet thick, two bridges
were washed away, and the roadbed and track
badly washed and damaged. The loss to the
Company is estimated at 100000
There was a pie eating match at E.
on Monday night. ThSw <euerlcn-